it requires explosives to join the parts of the uranium or plutonium, but everything past there is physics, chemistry does not deal with sub atomic particles, decay, or anything radioactive in the sense that physics does.

Rhythm and meter in poetry, for one. Iambic, tochaic, anapestic styles. Mono, di, tri, tetrameters. All that stuff deals with writing and patterns, and it all has at least some amount of basic counting involved. Therefor, writing, poetry no less, requires some amount of math. Not to mention series, chapters and pages correlating to specific numbers, making navigation and conversation easy and efficient for anyone versed with the counting system used. TL;DR, I'm still a junior in high school and I'm already a huge nerdy-nerd in nearly every subject, and deserve to be made fun of because of the exorbitant extent of my knowledge. Also, I feel as if this picture is quite relevant.

Uhm... the Russians were trading with the native Americans before the British found the new world... They were trading all up and down the Coast from Alaska to Mexico... which is why the Native Americans 'didn't seem surprised to see white men' when Louis and Clark came about.